Recent content by ebyewtree

Just a short follow up to message just posted. Watch what mum does to her baby when he is naughty in the field. She will do her own version of sending him away just as we do during join up, so I do not think that a short session of join-up would have done him the slightest harm at all. Agree...

Yes, in my opinion, you did the right thing. He perhaps got bored just standing around in the field, and clearly thought he could get away with being naughty after you repremanded him. I see nothing wrong in anything you did, and the join-up was the right idea, and will make him think twice...

We have just had a really bad outbreak of buttercups in our paddocks treated with a chemical spray, we think MCPA. The last time we had it done, four years ago, we were told to keep the horses off it for at least ten days. This time the advice is for three days. We have been reading up on the...